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001 2014024992
003 DLC
005 20150404082604.0
008 140922s2015 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2014024992
020 $a9781107026889 (hardback)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aGN281.4$b.S48 2015
082 00 $a599.93/8$223
084 $aSOC003000$2bisacsh
245 00 $aSettlement, society and cognition in human evolution :$blandscapes in the mind /$c[edited by] Fiona Coward, Bournemouth University, Robert Hosfield, Univeristy of Reading, Matt Pope, University College London, Francis Wenban-Smith, University of Southampton.
264 1 $aNew York, NY :$bCambridge University Press,$c2015.
300 $axxviii, 414 pages ;$c27 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
520 2 $a"This volume provides a landscape narrative of early hominin evolution, linking conventional material and geographic aspects of the early archaeological record with wider and more elusive social, cognitive and symbolic landscapes. It seeks to move beyond a limiting notion of early hominin culture and behavior as dictated solely by the environment to present the early hominin world as the outcome of a dynamic dialogue between the physical environment and its perception and habitation by active agents. This international group of contributors presents theoretically informed yet empirically based perspectives on hominin and human landscapes"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $a1. What use is the Palaeolithic in promoting new prehistoric narratives? / Chris Gosden; 2. Local objects, distant symbols: fission-fusion social systems and the evolution of human cognition / Matt Grove and Robin Dunbar; 3. The extension of social relations in time and space during the Palaeolithic and beyond / Dwight Read and Sander van der Leeuw; 4. Beyond animality and humanity : landscape, metaphor and identity in the early Upper Palaeolithic of Central Europe / Martin Porr; 5. At the heart of the African Acheulean : the physical, social and cognitive landscapes of Kilombe / John A.J. Gowlett, James S. Brink, Andy I.R. Herries, Sally Hoare, Isaya Onjala and Stephen M. Rucina; 6. All in a day's work? : early conflicts in expertise, life history and time management / Anthony Sinclair; 7. To see a world in a hafted tool : birch-pitch composite technology, cognition and memory in Neanderthals / R.M. Wragg Sykes; 8. Ecological niches, technological developments and physical adaptations of early humans in Europe : the handaxe-heidelbergensis hypothesis / Nick Ashton; 9. "Dancing to the rhythms of the biotidal zone" : settlement history and culture history in Middle Pleistocene Britain / Mark J. White; 10. "Forest furniture" or "forest managers"? : on Neanderthal presence in Last Interglacial environments / Wil Roebroeks and Corrie C. Bakels; 11. Late Pleistocene hominin adaptations in Greece / Paraskevi Elefanti and Gilbert Marshall; 12. In search of group identity : Late Pleistocene foragers in northern China / Ofer Bar-Yosef; 13. Handaxe symmetry in the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic : implications for the Acheulean gaze / James Cole; 14. Landscapes of the dead : the evolution of human mortuary activity from body to place in Palaeolithic Europe / Paul Pettitt; 15. Encoding and decoding the message : the case of mid Upper Palaeolithic female imagery / Margherita Mussi; 16. Contextualising the female image : symbols for common ideas and communal identity in Upper Palaeolithic societies / Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser and Olaf Jöris; 17. Taking a gamble : alternative approaches to the Mesolithic of western Scotland / Steven Mithen.
650 0 $aHuman evolution$xSocial aspects.
650 0 $aHuman settlements$xHistory$yTo 1500.
650 0 $aCognition and culture$xHistory$yTo 1500.
650 0 $aMaterial culture$xHistory$yTo 1500.
650 0 $aPrehistoric peoples.
651 0 $aAntiquities, Prehistoric.
650 0 $aPaleolithic period.
650 0 $aSocial archaeology.
650 0 $aLandscape archaeology.
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aCoward, Fiona Susan.
700 1 $aHosfield, Robert.
700 1 $aPope, Matthew$c(Archaeologist)
700 1 $aWenban-Smith, F. F.$q(Francis F.)
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/26889/cover/9781107026889.jpg